It marks a historic treble for the Robins, adding to their Challenge Cup and League Leaders’ Shield wins from 2025.
Hull KR are now only the fifth team to win the Super League Grand Final, joining Bradford Bulls, St Helens, Wigan and Leeds Rhinos.
Remarkably, they are also the first new winner in 21 years, stopping Wigan picking up their third in a row and inflicting a first final loss on head coach Matt Peet.
The key moment of the first half came when Brad O’Neill was shown a yellow card for a dangerous tip tackle on Tyrone May, Hull KR using it to their advantage as Mikey Lewis, who was given the Rob Burrow award for player of the match, and Joe Burgess then went over to move 10-0 ahead.
Adam Keighran managed to send over a huge penalty conversion for Wigan on the stroke of half-time, but the 10-2 scoreline left the Warriors with a mountain of work to do and Hull KR on the precipice of greatness.
Harry Smith managed to fire back for Wigan and bring the score to 10-6 but a Rhyse Martin penalty conversion, Jez Litten converted try and Burgess interception with two minutes left on the clock moved Hull KR 22-6 ahead and that was enough to seal the biggest moment in the club’s history.
Hull KR cement themselves as Super League giant
After a build-up befitting of the occasion with Sir Billy Boston poignantly bringing out the trophy as ‘Jerusalem’ rang out, Super League’s two top teams in 2025 went into battle in front of the 68,853 strong crowd.
With Hull KR making early errors it looked like Wigan were certain to get points on the board, but they passed up two golden opportunities to strike first.
In the seventh minute, Bevan French used his footwork to step through, but skipper Liam Farrell was unable to keep hold of the pass.
Soon after, Wigan thought they had made a chance count as Liam Marshall sent over a sensational chip kick from the wing for French to finish off under the sticks, but a video review showed the No 6 to have knocked on as he went to ground the ball, keeping the score at 0-0 after 15 minutes.
The touchpaper was then lit in the 18th minute as O’Neill was sent to the sin bin for a dangerous tip tackle on May, sparking a melee, and unlike Wigan, Hull KR used that opportunity to perfection.
In the build-up to the game Hull KR head coach Peters had challenge Lewis to ‘own the moment’, and he did that in the 20th minute as he sent an audacious dummy to part Wigan’s defensive line and send the East Stand wild, Arthur Mourgue adding the extras for the 6-0 lead.
O’Neill’s sin binning then got even more costly for Wigan as after mistakes from Luke Thompson and Liam Marshall, Hull KR flung it through hands close to the line for Burgess to dive over and put the Robins 10-up.
Hull KR continued to keep Wigan at arm’s length, and it was only a penalty as the hooter sounded for an accidental offside from Rhyse Martin that got Warriors on the scoreboard, Keighran sending over a long-range penalty conversion to cut into his side’s deficit.
Wigan needed to hit back as quickly as possible in the second half and that they did just that nine minutes in, Jai Field coming up with a huge break and dummy on the left edge before finding Smith who had the legs to race away and bring the score to 10-6, Keighran skewing the conversion attempt wide.
The Robins managed to reinstate a six-point lead quite quickly though as Wigan were penalised for interference and Martin slotted the conversion over.
With 20 minutes left on the clock, Hull KR then found a pivotal try once again as they spotted Wigan retreating on the last tackle and two offloads later found Litten to walk in, Martin making no mistake with the boot to move his side 18-6 in front and in real control.
As Wigan tried to chance their arm with time ticking away they only came up with errors and if the win was not already confirmed, it was when Burgess came up with an interception and walked in with just two minutes left on the clock.
With that, the Robins knew that had sealed the biggest day in their history and certified themselves as one of Super League’s giants.
